News and Commentary
New Report: Improving Environments for Learning in the Health Professions
Today, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation issued a set of recommendations to guide leaders from health professions education and health care organizations on how to design and create optimal learning and work environments...
My Last Week as President
Later this week I will step down as President of the Macy Foundation. But I am confident that this current of change will prevail. After all, the enormity of the work that has been accomplished in the past decade has...
Ten Lessons Learned After Ten Years of Leadership
Dr. George Thibault shares the ten most important lessons he has learned as a foundation president.
Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP, Named President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP, Dean for Medical Education at the University of Chicago, has been selected as the next president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.
New Academy Professorship honors medical education icon
Dean for Medical Education Edward M. Hundert, MD ’84, announced April 6 that the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, which is the only national foundation dedicated solely to improving the education of health professionals,...
Call for Applications: 2018 Macy Faculty Scholars Program
We are pleased to invite applications for our eighth class of Macy Faculty Scholars.
A Message to First-Year Medical Students
Last month Macy President Dr. George E. Thibault spoke at Maine Medical Center to welcome its new class of students, outlining six areas of needed reform in how we train the next generation of providers.